https://www.tmz.com/2019/01/02/wwe-legend-mean-gene-okerlaud-dead-at-76/ If we can get a 2019 dead pool thread. Mean Gene is first to go.
How the fuck didn’t he die two decades ago? He’s a walking addictive personality and the exact opposite of what the word “health” means. He has two options now: hire DDP, or die.
Mean Gene, the WWF/WWE announcer, passed away suddenly today. I think only Hulk Hogan and Jake the Snake are left from that era at this point.
Also I'm going to quit picking Kirk Douglas. He just celebrated 102 years. That dude is just going to live forever. They'll dust him off at Christmas and roll him out to give an Oscar presentation each February from now until the end of time. Long live Spartacus!
Aww, dang. Super Dave bits on Letterman were always great. And, if you haven't seen them, check out the Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee episodes with Bob Einstein.
Let’s bask in how this guy was an incredible influence on modern comedy— he was the chief writer for Bizarre and the Smothers Brothers, the first comics to openly attack politicians on TV. Nowadays politics serve as a lightning rod for comics (and justly so) and Einstein was the first one to do it. “Super Dave” was a skit on the show Bizzare that became a lifetime joke for him; but as an innovator for TV humour, he belongs in the comedy hall of fame.
Mean Gene was a consummate professional in a very silly business. He could have easily been a top anchor on any big news network but instead he played the “straight man” while constantly getting humiliated by gigantic freaks. Of course, there was that one time...,
Ok, these are my five for the pool: Bob Barker Bob Dole RBG Bill Cosby John Madden It's not looking good for Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, but I refuse to put them on the list, because I don't want it to be so. And, I guess I could take a flyer on Andy Dick or Pete Davidson or Kevin Spacey - some tortured soul who's going to kill themselves - but, I'd essentially just be flipping a coin.
To be fair Kevin Spacey would need self-awareness to be tortured. But Ill give you Andy Dick. I dont think it will be suicide, at least not deliberately. Im guessing an OD of booze and coke.
Mine will be Gene Hackman Randy Quaid Takeshi Sixxt-Nine WhateverTheFuck (shivved in jail. We all hope.)
Mine are: Kirk Douglas (102) Dick Van Dyke (93) Prince Philip (97) And then there's going to be someone who surprises us, so I say Harrison Ford (76) in a plane crash.